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- Psaltery & Lyre’s New Site
- 123 Psaltery & Lyre: “Agricola Dreams of Flying” by J. Rose Lara
- 122 Psaltery & Lyre: “Communion: a love poem (a villanelle)” by Rachel Bollinger
- Book Review: Philip Metres’s Sand Opera
- 121 Psaltery & Lyre: Rachael Matthews, “Horsehead Nebula”
- Book Review: Monica Ong’s Silent Anatomies
- 120 Psaltery & Lyre: Rachael Matthews, “Return, pt. III” and “Gaia”
- Book Review: Claudia Rankine’s Don’t Let Me Be Lonely
- Book Review: Matthea Harvey, If the Tabloids Are True What Are You?
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priesthood Archive
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Unglorifying Motherhood
April showers are over and May flowers are starting to bloom. This beautiful time of year has many people... -
Gender Equality and the Mormon Church: Why Progressive Mormon Men are the Problem
Here’s the reason you’re the problem: You benefit from all the perks of patriarchy, but you won’t own it... -
Equality is not a Feeling, 13.0
Today’s post is kind of cheating, since it’s just a new visual depiction of data from the Equality is not... -
Equality is not a Feeling, 12.0
The Equality is not a Feeling, 10.0 post teased out some data about the doctrinal density of General Conference talks... -
Race, Priesthood and Infallibility
So what we have is a page that just showed up on the “official” church website a few days ago... -
Equality is Not a Feeling, 9.0
Today’s illustration depicts the official duties of Mormon young men and women, ages 12-18. Each group has duties and... -
Boys, Safety Patrol and the Priesthood
A couple weeks ago, four out of five of us slept through our alarms. I rushed into Stuart’s room... -
Ride to Priesthood Session with Ordain Women
A couple weeks ago, I flew to Salt Lake City to attend the all-male priesthood session of the General Conference... -
Not the Same Mormons
“When I was a kid I loved to read fiction and non-fiction books about the Old West. There was always... -
Ordain Mormon Women
Doves and Serpents just received word that the fantabulous Cate has penned a song for the women (and men) of... -
Women, the Priesthood, and the Cookie Jar
We don’t like to frame it that way. We like to talk about how men and women are equal... -
My response to a Letter of Kindly-Intended Correction Regarding My Pro-Female Ordination Stance
By Spunky On October 5th, there are a group of Mormon women who will go to the Priesthood Session of... -
The Next Generation
I’ve written plenty here about the (what feel to me like unrelenting) gender inequities in the Mormon church. And... -
June: A Tough Pull
The June lesson line-up for the Young Women and Young Men of the church is a tough pull. First, in... -
Guest Post Invitation: Feeling “Less-Than” at Church
This boy wasn’t mean. But he was very clear that I, as a woman, had no place in any part... -
Redeeming Asherah
By Michelle Wiener (aka, Michelle Mormon) Today at work, the question of God’s gender came up, and I replied that... -
41 Psaltery & Lyre: Angela Felsted, “Sons”
“I believe / you put the compass in me, / you are the needle / that directs us on the... -
45 A Mormon in the Cheap Seats: Pants-Wearing Women Running Wild
That, my friends, is how you maintain a cultural norm, and in that context, press releases telling women they can... -
28 A Mormon in the Cheap Seats: Cognitive Dissonance 101
I have remarked more than once that Mormons are often able to juggle contradictory ideas without, apparently, even being aware... -
A Preview of Things to Come?
My son is the only boy in his Primary class, which makes him the only soon-to-be Young Man in the... -
20 A Mormon in the Cheap Seats: Half a Church
I have brought my daughter, dressed up and nervous with anticipation, gift in hand, to a birthday party where the...